[lbo-talk] Problems with the Kerala model

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 7 06:20:23 PDT 2007


Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, I was friendly with a guy in the UN Press Office who'd originally come from Kerala. He told me that the state's problem was that high levels of social development raised expectations which the weak economy couldn't deliver on. So people emigrated. He applied this analysis to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe - high educational and health levels combined with bupkes in the material realm meant a lot of dissatisfaction. Better the American way of keeping the poor uneducated & sick!

Doug



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